"How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other."

“All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.”

“I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.”

Source : IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam

“Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”

Source : Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

“Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're not referring to somebody who has an accent who's slightly different to theirs.”

“We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.”

“Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.”

“Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something”